Neil Blumenthal: Good Design Is Like Obscenity

Feb 18, 2014 10:40 am ET

NEIL BLUMENTHAL: Whenever I think about good design, my mind instantly goes to the phrase used by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in 1964 to describe his standard for obscenity: “I know it when I see it.” This means that writing about the topic is difficult, because there are no hard rules…